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UCL Urban Laboratory

UCL Urban Laboratory

exploring new methods of urban research across disciplinary boundaries

UCL Urban Laboratory

critical, independent, rigorous and original scholarship on cities

UCL Urban Laboratory

leading urban debate and the design and planning
of contemporary cities

UCL Urban Laboratory

engaging with London and its communities

UCL Urban Laboratory

developing international networks and
comparisons in urban research and action

UCL Urban Laboratory

drawing on UCL’s heritage of pioneering
urbanism

UCL Urban Laboratory

critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research, practice

Events

Entrepreneurial heritage-making in post-Wall Berlin: The case of New Potsdamer Platz

Start:
Feb 27, 2019 1:00:00 PM
End:
Feb 27, 2019 2:30:00 PM

New Potsdamer Platz has been the flagship urban
development project of post-Wall Berlin. Throughout the 1990s, Potsdamer
Platz evolved from an abandoned no-man’s-land, delineated by the Berlin
Wall, into Europe’s largest construction site and, finally, into the
much-vaunted new centre of the once and future capital of reunified
Germany. While the piecewise sale of Potsdamer Platz to international
enterprises such as DaimlerChrysler and the Sony Corporation provoked
controversial discussions in the early 1990s, the fact that several
monuments and other relics from the conflictual history of Potsdamer
Platz were part of the sales has hardly caught attention.

Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination book launch

Cities Imaginaries Lecture 2019: Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Start:
May 16, 2019 6:30:00 PM
End:
May 16, 2019 8:00:00 PM

UCL Urban Laboratory hosts the 2019 Cities Imaginaries lecture with Sonjah Stanley Niaah, head of
the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West
Indies, on the evolution of dancehall performance within and beyond Kingston, Jamaica.

We The Young Strong

Start:
Oct 24, 2019 7:00:00 PM
End:
Oct 24, 2019 9:30:00 PM

UCL Urban Laboratory and the Bloomsbury Theatre host a new drama by award-winning playwright Nicola Baldwin and director Cat Robey set in 1930’s East End London that considers the participation of women and young people in far-right politics.